8. "Bill Budlong was always the last man to come up to the mourners' bench." 84 9. "Clarence looked to me like another of his father's bad breaks." 98 10. "You looked so blamed important and chesty when you started off." 128 11. "Josh Jenkinson would eat a little food now and then just to be sociable, but what he really lived on was tobacco." 146 12. "Herr Doctor Paracelsus Von Munsterberg was a pretty high-toned article." 166 13. "When John L. Sullivan went through the stock yards it just simply shut down the plant." 184 14. "I started in to curl up that young fellow to a crisp." 200 15. "A good many salesmen have an idea that buyers are only interested in funny stories." 216 16. "Jim Hicks dared Fatty Wilkins to eat a piece of dirt." 248 17. "Elder Hoover was accounted a powerful exhorter in our parts." 268 18. "Miss Curzon, with one of his roses in her hair, watching him from a corner." 294 * * * * * +------------------------------+ | No. 1 | +------------------------------+ | From John Graham, at | | the Union Stock Yards | | in Chicago, to his son, | | Pierrepont, at Harvard | | University, Cambridge, | | Mass. Mr. Pierrepont has | | just been settled by his | | mother as a member, in | | good and regular standing, | | of the Freshman class. | +------------------------------+ LETTERS _from a_ SELF-MADE MERCHANT _to his_ SON I CHICAGO, October 1, 189- _Dear Pierrepont:_ Your Ma got back safe this morning and she wants me to be sure to tell you not to over-study, and I want to tell you to be sure not to under-study. What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the education that's so good and plenty there. When it's passed around you don't want to be bashful, but reach right out and take a big helping every time, for I want you to get your share. You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.